Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/162] 6.1.57-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 07:24:08PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 6:51 PM Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Naresh,
> >
> > On 09/10/2023 22:43, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2023 at 18:46, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.57 release.
> > >> There are 162 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > >> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > >> let me know.
> > >>
> > >> Responses should be made by Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:00:55 +0000.
> > >> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >>
> > >> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > >>         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.1.57-rc1.gz
> > >> or in the git tree and branch at:
> > >>         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.1.y
> > >> and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >>
> > >> thanks,
> > >>
> > >> greg k-h
> > >
> > >
> > > The following kernel warnings were noticed several times on arm x15 devices
> > > running stable-rc 6.1.57-rc1 while running  selftests: net: mptcp_connect.sh
> > > and netfilter: nft_fib.sh.
> > >
> > > The possible unsafe locking scenario detected.
> > >
> > > FYI,
> > > Stable-rc/ linux.6.1.y kernel running stable/ linux.6.5.y selftest in this case.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
> > >
> > > kselftest: Running tests in net/mptcp
> >
> > Thank you for having reported the issue and having added MPTCP ML in Cc!
> >
> > Just to avoid confusions: the "WARNING" you shared when running
> > 'mptcp_connect.sh' selftest appeared before creating the first MPTCP
> > connection. It looks like there is no reference to MPTCP in the
> > calltraces. Also, because you have the same issue with nft_fib.sh, I
> > would say that this issue is not linked to MPTCP but rather to a recent
> > modification in the IPv6 stack.
> >
> > By chance, did you start a "git bisect" to identify the commit causing
> > this issue?
> >
> >
> 
> I think stable teams missed to backport
> 
> commit c486640aa710ddd06c13a7f7162126e1552e8842
> Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Date:   Mon Mar 13 20:17:32 2023 +0000
> 
>     ipv6: remove one read_lock()/read_unlock() pair in rt6_check_neigh()
> 
>     rt6_check_neigh() uses read_lock() to protect n->nud_state reading.
> 
>     This seems overkill and causes false sharing.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>     Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
>     Reviewed-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Ah, didn't know we needed that, now queued up, thanks!

greg k-h